While revising a 2018 essay, the author was shocked to discover that it appeared to foreshadow the emergence of Tetsuya Yamagami, the assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Using Dostoevsky’s Smerdyakov as a metaphor, the essay argues that the Asahi Shimbun, NHK, and left-wing activists are ideological “illegitimate children” of the GHQ who now align themselves with China and the Korean Peninsula. It warns of forces seeking to undermine Japan from within, using political correctness, historical fabrication, and the Moritomo Gakuen issue as tools to “kill the father,” Japan.

I felt a chill midway through—because this essay had suggested the emergence of Tetsuya Yamagami, who assassinated Abe.
August 3, 2024

This is a chapter originally published on March 14, 2018, titled Smerdyakovs Who Seek to Sink Their Father, Japan, and Offer It to China and the Korean Peninsula, Their New Masters.

While I was revising paragraphs in order to republish this essay, I suddenly felt a chill.
This essay had implied the appearance of Tetsuya Yamagami, who assassinated Abe.
The phrase that symbolized this was: “The last chance to kill their hated father, Japan, is the Moritomo Gakuen issue.”

Last night, I went to sleep earlier than usual and consequently awoke earlier than usual.
People around me must have known that I possessed a mind given by God.
That is why they loved me, and I loved them.
Awakening from the dream I saw for that very reason, Smerdyakov appeared.
The Smerdyakov from Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, which I had finished reading in junior high school.
Overwhelmed, and wanting to sleep a bit longer, I decided to get out of bed.

The Asahi Shimbun and the employees who work there are Smerdyakov.
Those who sympathize with the Asahi Shimbun (or have long sympathized with it—the so-called people whose symbol is the small group protesting in front of the Diet shouting “Abe resign,” “Aso resign”… and the other so-called minorities—the majority of whom, it is no exaggeration to say, are communists… people mobilized by the Communist Party or similar political factions… and which NHK broadcasts as though it were an enormous demonstration, showing them overflowing onto the sidewalk)
They are all Smerdyakov.

Japan, for the first time since the beginning of its history, lost a war and was occupied by another country—the occupying power was the GHQ.
They were the illegitimate children begotten by the GHQ.
That is their true nature and the whole of what they are.
When the GHQ ceased to exist, these people, who now had to live on as illegitimate children, became the illegitimate offspring of China and the Korean Peninsula.

Now, the ambitions of the countries they revere as their “parents” are clear:
At the moment Japan shows an opening, they will land militia forces on the Senkaku Islands and complete the invasion, then continue on to invade Okinawa and make it their own territory.
The other side seeks to keep Japan a perpetual political prisoner through fabricated history, so they can at any time extort money under the label of “a nation that committed war crimes.”
But this attitude is common to China—a nation whose original nature is “bottomless evil” and “plausible lies”—and the Korean Peninsula, its vassal state throughout recorded history.
It is their shared philosophy.

The Asahi Shimbun, their illegitimate child, is the Smerdyakov that ruled Japan until August four years ago.
Those who sympathize with it are Smerdyakovs raised by the GHQ to hate their father, Japan.
But they are now nothing more than illegitimate children spawned between China and the Korean Peninsula.

“The last chance to kill their hated father, Japan, is the Moritomo Gakuen issue.”
As illegitimate children, the stage is set on a piece of land worth two pennies—a “giveaway price” piece of land in English.
They continue uttering nonsense proving that they are beings without foundation, like larvae feeding on mist… unaware that they themselves are the possessors of a “giveaway price” ideology.

Throughout the postwar era, in order to avert their eyes from the wartime slogans “Total annihilation of the hundred million,” “We will not want until we win,” they have instead strutted around as guardians of democracy, waving political correctness like a weapon.
And the land to which they have pledged allegiance—derived from the Korean Peninsula, a place where, borrowing the words of some writer, “madmen exist” and have long ravaged nations—
They now wage their final battle with their adoptive parents China and the Korean Peninsula to sell off their real parent—Japan, whom they hate with bottomless resentment.
Through the Asahi Shimbun and its sympathizers… and many sympathizers through television.

The Smerdyakovs… sinking their real father, Japan… and attempting to offer Japan to their current masters, China and the Korean Peninsula.
That is the true appearance of the Asahi Shimbun Company, which is itself Smerdyakov, and all who sympathize with it.